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Amazon released Lightsail this week, a new entry-level EC2 based VPS service to compete with the likes of Linode and Digital Ocean.

They come with some preset base OS images rather than allowing full customisation via AMIs. To alleviate this you can use "Launch Scripts". It does this using a subset of the functionality from cloud-init The downside to this is a delayed ready time for your server.

I've quickly thrown together a launch script for their Ubuntu 16.04 base image that gets the latest stable Docker installed.